“They say we’re doing unbelievable with men … Men like me. They say women don’t,” Donald Trump told a crowd of Michigan voters at a rally last Friday.

From the moment Kamala Harris landed at the top of the Democratic ticket, gender has been front and centre in the US presidential race. Some have gone so far as to describe the 2024 election as a “battle of the sexes”. And there’s some truth to this glib characterisation.