Women always want to mate with high status men. Women and men are both hungry for status. However, what defining factors are there apart from positions?

How different is the concept of status from that of class?

And, in turn, is it the same thing as SMV? It's certainly true that status contributes to SMV, but SMV is an aggregate of various 'fitness' components. What exactly is status? What are real world examples of it?

Furthermore, how does the concept of status differ between genders (desire for it, how it is achieved, etc)?