Peg Yorkin

Peg Yorkin
Born	1927 (age 89–90)
Occupation	Chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation
Spouse(s)	Bud Yorkin (m. 1954; div. 1986)
Children	Nicole Yorkin and David Yorkin
Awards	Women of Courage Award 1993

Peg Yorkin (born 1927) is an American feminist activist.

Yorkin grew up in New York City.

In 1991, she made a $10-million endowment and gift to the Feminist Majority Foundation (which she was a cofounder and is the chair of) and the Fund for the Feminist Majority, a sister organization that she co-founded in 1987. The first program of the endowment was to help make RU 486 or another anti-progestin available to women.

She spoke at the Feminist Expo 2000 at the Baltimore Convention Center, and has also produced live theater in Los Angeles.

She was criticized by Bitch magazine for saying in 2009, in regard to Roman Polanski, "My personal thoughts are let the guy go. It's bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It's crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things."

She received the Women of Courage Award in 1993.

Yorkin married TV producer Bud Yorkin in 1954; they divorced in 1986. They have two children (Nicole and David), both are TV writers. She has four grandchildren.

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