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Florence Chadwick
undercompensated
overlooked
symbolic
Florence Chadwick stands as a married school staff member with no dependents, her annual salary of approximately $2,100 thrust into a raw confrontation over pay equity. Young Jed Bartlet clutches her case to shield male colleagues like Mr. Hopkins, whose family burdens justify higher wages, but Mrs. Landingham shatters the rationalization, exposing privilege's blind spots. Chadwick embodies the quiet inequities gnawing at institutional underbelly, her offstage existence igniting Jed's first sparks of moral insurgency against his father's regime.
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