"welfare queen" is an insulting term for a woman who is believed to be cheating the government by collecting excessive welfare payments. although empirical research indicates that very little welfare fraud actually takes place, what nugget of sociological truth is contained in the phrase "welfare queen"

The use of the word "queen" reminds us that women are more likely than men to live in poverty.
The term indicates that the person that more likely to cheat the welfare is a woman rather than a man. The term is also perpetuated by the data which shown that most women that use welfare are living in a household with no men around (single mothers)