A career break is a period of time out from employment. Traditionally, this is for mothers to raise children, but it is sometimes used for people taking time out of their career for personal development and/or professional development.
Famous quotes containing the words career and/or break:
“The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so—concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.”
—Jessie Bernard (20th century)
“It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.”
—Mae West, U.S. actor, screenwriter, and A. Edward Sutherland. Peaches O’Day (Mae West)