Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

English, Ashley. 2024. “Women’s Policy Machineries and Representation in the USA: Toward Filling Empirical Gaps.” French Politics https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-024-00259-y

English, Ashley, Regina Branton, and Amy Friesenhahn. Forthcoming.  “Outside of the Old Boys Club?: Gender Differences in Outside Groups’ Advertising Support for US Senate Candidates.” Political Research Quarterly 77(1):324-343.

English, Ashley, Regina Branton, and Amy Friesenhahn. 2024. “Outsiders Among Outside Groups? Campaign Advertising and the Electability of Female House Candidates.” Political, Groups, and Identities. 12(1): 85-106. 

English, Ashley. 2021. “Lobbying Beyond Legislatures: Women’s Organizations’ Participation in Rulemaking.” Politics & Gender 18(4): 1077-1111.

English, Ashley. 2021. "Is it a Four Star Movement? Policy Transformation and The US Women’s National Soccer Team’s Campaign for Equal Pay." Social Science Quarterly 102(4):1966-1981.

English, Ashley. 2021. “Implementing Intersectionality: Women’s Organizations’ Representation of Women During Two Rulemakings” Politics, Groups, and Identities 9(4):739-758.
 
English, Ashley. 2020. "Where are All the Single Ladies? Marital Status and Women's Organizations' Rulemaking Campaigns" Politics & Gender 16(2): 581-607.

English, Ashley. 2019. “She Who Shall Not be Named: The Women that Women’s Organizations Do (and Do Not) Represent in the Rulemaking Process.”  Politics & Gender 15(3): 573-598.

English, Ashley, Pearson, Kathryn, and Dara Strolovitch. 2019. “Who Represents Me? Race, Gender, Partisan Congruence and Representational Alternatives in a Polarized America.” Political Research Quarterly. 72(4): 785-804. Data available here. 
​Branton, Regina, Ashley English, Samantha Pettey, and Tiffany Barnes. 2018. “The Impact of Gender and Quality Opposition on the Relative Assessment of Candidate Competency.” Electoral Studies 54:35-43.

English, Ashley. 2016. “Rewriting Title IX: The Department of Education’s Response to Feminists’ Comments in the Rulemaking Process.” Politics & Gender 12(3): 491-517.

Hartmann, Heidi and Ashley English. 2009. “Women’s Retirement Security: A Primer.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 30(2/3): 109-140.

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

Hartmann, Heidi and Ashley English. 2007. “Florida’s Dishonorable Mention:  Key Indicators of Women’s Well-Being.” In Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change, eds. Judy A. Hayden, Sharon Kay Masters, Rhonda L.S. Ovist, and Kim Vaz.  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Research Reports, Briefing Papers, & Fact Sheets

Hartmann, Heidi, Ashley English, and Jeffrey Hayes. 2010. “Women and Men’s Employment and Unemployment in the Great Recession.” Briefing Paper. Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

English, Ashley, Heidi Hartmann, and Jeffrey Hayes. 2010. “Are Women Now Half the Labor Force? The Truth About Women and Equal Participation in the Labor Force.” Briefing Paper.  Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Hartmann, Heidi, Ashley English, John Schmitt, and Hye Jin Rho. 2010. “More Men to Benefit from Expanded Coverage Under Healthcare Reform.” Fact Sheet.  Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

English, Ashley and Sunhwa Lee. 2010. “Women and Social Security: Benefit Types and Eligibility.” Briefing Paper. Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

English, Ashley and Sunhwa Lee. 2010. “Who Are Social Security Beneficiaries?” Fact Sheet.  Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

English, Ashley. 2009. “Restoring Equal Opportunity in Education: An Analysis of Arguments for and Against the Bush Administration Single-Sex Education Regulations.”  Briefing Paper. Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research. (Submitted to the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education).

English, Ashley, Heidi Hartmann, Ariane Hegewisch. 2009. “Unemployment Among Single Mother Families.” Fact Sheet. Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Rose, Stephen J., Heidi Hartmann, Ashley English, and Ariane Hegewisch. 2008. “Still a Man’s Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap.” Research-in-Brief.  Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Hartmann, Heidi, Olga Sorokina, Erica Williams, Vicky Lovell, Tori Finkle, Ashley English, and Amy Caiazza. 2006. “The Best and Worst State Economies for Women.” Briefing Paper.  Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Presentations

Conference Presentations

“Insufficient Intersectionality: The Limits of Federal Wage Discrimination Lawsuits in the 21st Century.” (with Lanie Richards).  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 5, 2024.

“Implementation of Equal Pay Policies at the Federal and State Levels in the United States.” (with Meredith Niezgoda, Lanie Richards, Season Hoard, and Sydney Smith). Presented at the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Equal Pay Workshop on Implementation When Policy Fails: The Uphill Battle for Equal Pay, Paris, France, November 24, 2023.

“Burdensome Lawsuits and Complaints: The Limitations of American Equal Pay Policy Enforcement.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Fort Worth, TX. April 1, 2023.
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“Representation & Gender Equality Policies in US Women’s Policy Machineries” (with Karine Lepillez). Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada. September 17, 2022.
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“Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work: The Limitations of American Equal Pay Policies.” (with Meredith Niezgoda).  Presented at the Exploring GEPP in Emerging Research on Equal Pay Policy in Action Workshop. Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, Germany. June 20, 2022.
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“Do Women’s Super PACs Make the Dough Rise?  A Descriptive Exploration of Women’s Super PACs in Congressional Candidates’ Donor Networks.” (with Stephanie Wise).  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR. March 11, 2022.

“Still Outside of the Old Boys Club? Gender Differences in Outside Groups’ Advertising Support for U.S. Senate Candidates.” (with Regina Branton and Amy Friesenhahn).  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Virtual and San Antonio, TX, January 13, 2022.

“Do Women’s Super PACs Make the Dough Rise? The Effects of Women’s Super PACs on Congressional Candidates’ Donor Networks.” (with Stephanie Wise) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Virtual, April 16, 2021.
 
“Is it a Four Star Movement? The US Women’s National Soccer Team’s Campaign for Equal Pay.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Virtual, April 2, 2021.
 
“Still Outsiders Among Outside Groups: Campaign Advertising and the Electability of Female US Senate Candidates.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Virtual, April 1, 2021.​

“Outsiders Among Outside Groups?: Gender Differences in Advertising Support for US House Candidates.” (with Regina Branton and Amy Friesenhahn). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA (Virtual), September 10, 2020. 

​“Outsiders Among Outside Groups?: Gender Differences in Advertising Support for US House Candidates.” (with Regina Branton and Amy Friesenhahn). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA (Virtual), May 22, 2020.

“Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work?: American Equal Pay Policies and Their Limited Potential for Gender Transformation and Empowerment.” (with Meredith Niezgoda) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA (Virtual), May 22, 2020. 

“Intersectional Activism and Advocacy in Time” (with Dara Strolovitch, Chaya Crowder, Maraam Dwidar, and Mary Kroeger). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. January 9, 2020.

"Lobbying Beyond the Legislature: Women’s Organizations’ Participation in Rulemaking.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC. August 30, 2019.

​ “Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work?: American Equal Pay Policies and Their Limited Potential for Gender Transformation and Empowerment” (with Meredith Niezgoda). Presented at the European Conference on Politics and Gender, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 5, 2019.
 
“Intersectional Activism and Advocacy in Time” (with Dara Strolovitch, Chaya Crowder, Maraam Dwidar, and Mary Kroeger). Presented at the European Conference on Politics and Gender, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 5, 2019. 

“Implementing Intersectionality: Women’s Organizations’ Representation of Women During Two Rulemakings.”  Presented at the American Political Science Association’s Women’s Research Mentoring Workshop, Washington, DC. October 12, 2018.

“All the Single Ladies?: Marital Status and Women’s Organizations’ Policy Advocacy Campaigns.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA. August 31, 2018.
 
“Representation and Rewriting the Rules: An Overview of Women’s Organizations’ Participation in the Rulemaking Process.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 6, 2018.
 
“Implementing Intersectionality: Women’s Organizations’ Representation of Women During Two Rulemakings.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. September 2, 2017.

“Implementing Intersectionality: Women’s Organizations’ Representation of Women During Two Rulemakings.” American Political Science Association, September 2, 2017.
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“Representing Women, Responding to Rules: Women's Organizations' Participation in the Rulemaking Process”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 15, 2017.

“A War on Which Women? Constructing Women’s Interests in the Contraception Mandate Debate.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 17, 2015.

“A War on Which Women?: Constructing Women’s Interests in the Contraception Mandate Debate.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV. April 4, 2015.

“’You Can’t Always Get What You Want’: How the Department of Education Marginalized Feminists’ Opposition to its 2006 Title IX Single-Sex Regulations.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 4, 2014.

“The Rules: Constructing and Legitimizing Women’s Policy Interests Through Agency Rulemaking.”  Presented at the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. June 25, 2013.

“Maternalist Policy Legacies and Their Impact on Women’s Political Leadership and Welfare State Spending.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA. January 12, 2012.

“Current Feminist Approaches to Public Policy Studies.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. November 13, 2009.

Invited Presentations

"Civics 101: Informational Dialogue." Denton Feminist & Queer Collective, February 26, 2017.

“A War on Which Women?: Constructing Women’s Interests in the Contraception Mandate Debate.”  Presented at the Doctoral Dissertation Fellows Showcase, University of Minnesota. April 7, 2015.

“A War on Which Women?: Constructing Women’s Interests in the Contraception Mandate Debate.” Presented at Doctoral Dissertation Fellows Seminar, University of Minnesota. February 12, 2015.