We decompose poverty-inequality linkages of sources of deprivation by men-headed and
women-headed households in Cameroon. Results indicate that (a) women-headed and
gender-neutral households face more human and household capital deprivation and higher
levels of inequality than their men-headed counterparts; and (b) whereas decreasing
inequality between the men-headed and women-headed households would reduce the
incidence and depth of human capital deprivation, reducing inequality among the men-and
women-headed households will reduce the incidence and depth of household capital
deprivation. Policies should simultaneously reduce household capital deprivations among
men-headed and women-headed and human capital deprivation between these households.