Social media users can now add ‘stay at home parent’ to their career history on LinkedIn. The professional networking site added the new setting to reflect calls from mums and dads wishing to accurately show that family life can make gaps in employment history inevitable – or even desirable. LinkedIn won national coverage praising the more inclusive update to its settings, which seems especially timely given how far we’ve come in breaking down the stigma surrounding working parents as a result of lockdown, working from home and juggling home-schooling. There’s a far greater transparency between employers and employees and a better understanding of working parents and this move, by LinkedIn, will only help to continue those positive conversations.