family, including battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowryrelated violence, marital rape, and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence, and violence related to exploitation; (2) Physical, sexual, and psychological violence occurring within the general community, including rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere, trafficking in women,and prostitution; and (3) Physical, sexual, and psychological violence perpetrated or condonedbythe State, whereverit occurs. It also includes acts of violence against womenasdefined in Republic Acts No. 9208 and 9262. Under these Rules and Regulations,this term is used interchangeably with gender-based violence; L. “Gross monthly compensation"refers to the monthly basic pay plus mandatory allowances fixed by the regional wage boards; M. “Gynecological disorders” refers to disorders that would require surgical procedures such as, but notlimited to, dilatation and curettage and those involving female reproductive organs suchasthe vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, breast, adnexa and pelvic floor, as certified by a competent physician. For purposesofthe Act and these Rules and Regulations, gynecological surgeries shall also include hysterectomy, ovariectomy, and mastectomy; N. “Marginalization” refers to a condition where a whole category of people is excluded from useful and meaningful participation in political, economic, social, and culturallife; 0. “Marginalized” refers to the basic, disadvantaged,or vulnerable persons or groups who are mostly living in poverty and havelittle or no access to land and other resources, basic social and economic services suchashealth care, education, water and sanitation, employmentand livelihood opportunities, housing, social security, physical infrastructure, andthe justice system. Theseinclude, but are notlimited to, women in the following sectors and groups: 1. “Children” refers to those whoare below eighteen (18) years of age or over but are unable to fully take care of themselves or protect themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation, or discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or condition; 2. “Fisherfolk" refers to those directly or indirectly engaged in taking, culturing, or processing fishery or aquatic resources. Theseinclude, but are notto belimitedto, womenengagedin fishing in municipal waters, coastal and marine areas, women workers in commercial fishing and aquaculture, vendors and processors offish and coastal products, and subsistence producers suchasshell-gatherers, managers, and producers of mangroveresources,and other related producers; 3. “Indigenous Peoples”refers to a group of people or homogenoussocieties identified byself-ascription and ascription by other, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possesséd customs,tradition, and otherdistinctive cultural traits, or who have, through resistanceto political, social, and cultural inroads of colonization, nonindigenous religions and culture, becamehistorically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos. They shall likewise include peoples whoare regarded as indigenous on accountoftheir descentfrom the populations whichinhabited the country, at the time of conquestorcolonization, or at the time of inroads of non-indigenousreligions and cultures,or the establishment of present state boundaries, whoretain someorall of their own social, economic, cultural, and political institutions, but who may have been displaced from their traditional domains or who may haveresettled outside their ancestral domains as defined under Section 3 (h), ChapterII of Republic Act No. 8371, otherwise known as the “Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997" (IPRA of 1997); 47