With deep appreciation, respect and love, we honor two founding Board Members of Wild West Women who have recently passed away.
Virginia Carter (1936 – 2024)
Board President
Virginia Carter, a physicist whose activism for the National Organization for Women led the sitcom impresario Norman Lear to hire her in the early 1970s to be his feminist conscience as he presided over taboo-breaking shows that touched on sensitive social issues, died on Oct. 17 at her home in Redondo Beach, Calif. She was 87.
Peg Yorkin (1927 – 2023)
Board Member and ardent supporter
Peg Yorkin, a feminist activist and philanthropist who as a founder of the Feminist Majority, a national women’s rights organization, campaigned to bring mifepristone, the abortion pill, to the United States and to increase the number of women in political office, died on Sunday (June 2023) at her home in Malibu, Calif. She was 96.
