ty council in our hometown for eight years, and kept employment as a real estate agent. Those two positions could generally be thought of as possessing an agentic nature because she was a leader of the community as well as an aggressive salesperson. However, as busy as her life got, she always made sure that she made it to her children's practices, games, recitals, etc. She also felt it was important that she was present when we got home and had a home cooked meal on the table every evening. She valued her closeness to her family above and beyond her career and leadership position in the community. She often risked losing a deal on a house, or missing a city council meeting to be with her family. She told me once that it was her closeness to her family that made her successful--- that without her family, she would not have reason to do what she did in the community. ...
