Senate Bill No. Page 4 ~~_ 1 b. "Education and Training" refers to all types and levels of education, training, and 2 other avenues for learning and includes access thereto, the standard and quality thereof and 3 the conditions under which the same is given. 4 c. "Ethnic Origin" includes race, national origin, and ethno-linguistic origin. 5 d. "Employment" refers to all terms, conditions, and privileges relating to work in public 6 and private institutions, including recruitment policies, application procedures, training, 7 incentives, compensation, determination of benefits or allowances, promotion, advancement 8 opportunities, transfer, and dismissal. 9 This definition shall apply to regular, probationary, casual, contractual, fixed-term, and 10 seasonal workers. In legitimate contracting arrangements, the contractor/subcontractor shall 11 be deemed the employer of the contractual employee. 12 e. "Gender Identity" refers to the personal sense of identity or expression as 13 characterized, among others, by manners of clothing, inclinations, and behavior in relation to 14 masculine or feminine conventions. A person may have a male or female identity with the 15 physiological characteristics of the opposite sex. 16 f. "Gender Expression" refers to the outward manifestations of the cultural traits that 17 enable a person to identify as male or female according to patterns that, at a particular 18 moment in history, a given society defines as gender appropriate. 19 20 g. "HIV Status" pertains to the presence or absence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the body of an individual. ,21 h. "Indigenous Peoples" refers to a group of people or homogenous societies identified 22 by self ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized 23 community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of 24 ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed and utilized such territories, sharing 25 common bonds of language, customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural traits, or who 26 have, through resistance to political, social and cultural inroads of colonization, nonindigenous 27 religions and cultures, became historically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos. 4