{"id":5346,"date":"2010-09-27T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2010-09-27T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T22:06:28","slug":"avon-ceo-gets-clinton-initiative-award-deserved-or-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/avon-ceo-gets-clinton-initiative-award-deserved-or-controversial\/","title":{"rendered":"Avon CEO Gets Clinton Initiative Award :: Deserved or Controversial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/avon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5347\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/avon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/avon.jpg 400w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/avon-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Jung was the recipient of the award for her global efforts empowering  women against poverty, violence and more, and for having raised more  than $725 million toward breast cancer research. She presides over the  worlds largest corporate philanthropy fund for women and is actively  involved in global partnerships that keep women safe; and she&#8217;s head of a  company that now employs more than 42,000 people<\/p>\n<p><strong>The irony?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Avon products still contain what are known to be harmful  chemicals in their products, including endocrine disruptors, suspected  carcinogens, irritants and synthetics. As an organization that is  working so hard on behalf of women to help fight breast cancer and  womens health issues in general, how is it possible that there is still  such a disconnect between what they produce, and the very issues they&#8217;re  trying to eliminate? There are millions and millions of women using  Avon products daily, yet how many are aware that the products may be  causing more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not criticizing the enormous effort that Jung has made, just  making a case that perhaps some of that $725 million would be better  spent cleaning up their act across the board, not just where it makes  them look good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Writer :: Emma Pezzack &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurenatural.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.futurenatural.com<\/a>: the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurenatural.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">organic beauty products<\/a> in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone said recently that Andrea Jung  (she&#8217;s Chairman &amp; CEO of Avon Worldwide) being given this award, is the equivalent of BP getting the same honor for its work in solar, despite directly causing what is now being touted as the worst man-made disaster in history; the Gulf oil spill&#8230; <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/avon-ceo-gets-clinton-initiative-award-deserved-or-controversial\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":5347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[129,11,12],"tags":[5172,5173,5174,602],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/avon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}