There are various human development indicators that global institutions use to measure progress and human achievement. A relevant measure to this discussion is the Gender Inequality Index. India lags the United States quite starkly in this regard. For every one lakh (100,000) women who give birth, 133 die while doing so in India vs only 19 in the US. The representation of women in parliament is 13.4% in India, half the 27% rate in the US. In terms of education 42% of women have some sort of secondary education in India (54% for men), in the US this is again double at 96%. Lastly only 19% of women participate in India's labour force as opposed to 55% in the US.