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Peg Yorkin is a prominent feminist and philanthropist who was born in 1927. She is best known for her work in the women's rights movement, particularly her role in the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Yorkin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a degree in sociology. After college, she worked as a social worker and then as a television producer. In the late 1960s, she became involved in the women's rights movement and was a founding member of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Yorkin was a key figure in the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1972 but failed to be ratified by the necessary number of states. She also served as the chair of the ERA Campaign Fund, which raised money to support the amendment's passage. Yorkin has received numerous awards for her work in the women's rights movement, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. She is also a major philanthropist, having donated millions of dollars to various causes, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Yorkin is 96 years old and is currently married to her husband, television producer Norman Lear. She has two children from a previous marriage. Her net worth is estimated to be around $50 million.

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Born 1927, 1927
Birthday 1927
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Date of death June 25, 2023
Died Place Malibu, California, U.S.
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Who Is Peg Yorkin's Husband?

Her husband is Bud Yorkin (m. 1954-1984)

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Children 2; including Nicole Yorkin

Peg Yorkin Net Worth

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2009

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.”

2000

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

1991

In 1991, she made a US$10,000,000 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.

1954

Yorkin grew up in New York City. An only child, born to a Catholic father and Jewish mother, she described her family household as "genteel poverty". Her father's alcoholism negated his career as a cinematographer for legendary filmmaker D.W. Griffith and forced the family to live "on the kindness of my mother's relatives." Yorkin was raised in neither religion and described herself as "no believer". "The religions are patriarchal. I don't believe in any of them, or a God, or a Goddess." She went to Barnard College, had a brief acting stint and an early marriage that lasted two years. Yorkin married Bud Yorkin from 1954 until their divorce in 1984.

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.

1927

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