However, to many potential employers and organisations, trying to explain the fact that staying at home raising children for a few years has been an unpaid job, not a leisure activity, has, up until now, not been easy.
A gap in your employment history has been a tricky one to explain or use to your advantage for many parents trying to re-enter the job market after raising their families.
But not LinkedIn is hoping to help change this.
The professional social network company is adding stay-at-home mum and stay-at-home dad as actual job titles.
As well as this, they are also removing an old requirement that said job titles needed to be linked to an employer.