If 25% are getting a first then the degree course was too easy!
A first should be a first and actually only about 10% should achieve it.
Another reason she may be overlooked is that she is a woman who will one day want a child. Science is a difficult job to work part time in. DD2 worked in the only job she was offered in a diagnostic firm and she hated it but they needed the money. Then she left and had two children and stayed at home coaching students.
When she had care arranged for her children she was offered several jobs as they thought quite rightly that she wouldn't be having another.
We have friends whose son and DIL are in the US, working as scientists and they can't get further work in Europe and they only get told they should have studied medicine as thats the qualification for research these days.
Who'd be a scientist?
I wish her luck and perhaps she could widen her appraoch and go abroad or leave home to get started.
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