“If we care about fairness and about true equality of opportunity, we should care about this work,” Okafor said. We need to have more open and honest conversations about how to truly advance our society in light of the implications of social network discrimination. “This allowed me to distill from a mathematical perspective a new and important driver of disparities between majority and minority groups. “Despite initial equality in ability, employment, wages and network structure, minorities receive disproportionately fewer jobs through referrals and lower expected wages, simply because their social group is smaller.”Okafor’s research also found that minorities can expect lower wages. He used real-world data to estimate that the minimum difference in expected wages caused by social network discrimination is at least 3.2%, disadvantaging minority workers.