Apple announced yesterday that Andrea Jung, chairman and chief executive officer of Avon Products, was elected to Apple’s board of directors.
This is good for a number of reasons. For one thing, Apple needs more women at the top levels. It’s only by accident and not design that the world’s best computer company had no women on the board for a while and has very few women at the highest levels in the company. It’s also good to have an aggressive marketeer in the areas of women’s goods, fashion and product. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal.