Peg Yorkin

During the campaign for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, Yorkin provided both substantial financial help and activism. In 1977, she was elected a delegate from California to the National Women's Conference and in 1981 was one of the donors to the one-half million-dollar "Edith Bunker Memorial Award" to help the ERA.

In 1986, Yorkin produced the 20th Anniversary Show of the National Organization for Women (NOW). This show, which took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, featured 101 celebrities in a variety show and a tribute to NOW. This association with Ellie Smeal, who was then president of NOW, led to the formation, in 1987, of the Feminist Majority. In October 1991 Yorkin announced the largest gift ever donated to a feminist organization. The amount, ten million dollars, was given to the Feminist Majority Foundation. Yorkin is Chair of the FMF and works at the L.A. office daily.

Yorkin is a donor to the American Film Institute's Directing Women's Workshop. She also provides funding for a host of women's rights and progressive causes, including the Rape Foundation, Sojourn Center for Abused Women, the National Organization for Women, and Voters for Choice, feminist women political candidates and some feminist men candidates. Yorkin has 2 adult children, Nicole and David, who write for television and film.