This study contributes to our understanding of what lifestyle factors affect thesocial status of women and men in contemporary postmaterialist societies.We examine the dimensions and determinants of social status qualifiersamong Swedish people using a survey of 1,650 Swedish respondents whoranked the importance of 14 qualifiers for the social status of a woman anda man. The analysis showed surprisingly strong similarities in what factorsaffect the social status of women and men – both in the importance ofindividual status qualifiers and in the three underlying status dimensions:The highest-ranked dimension included status qualifiers related to externalmaterial resources and properties. The second most important dimensioncomprised interactional resources such as manners, looks, being marriedand having children. The third dimension concerned the importanceof interest and engagement in politics, the environment, and fine art,which were of the least importance for social status. The few significantdifferences in ascriptions of status for a woman or a man were rather genderstereotypical. In addition, the analysis revealed some significant differencesin status perceptions among the respondents: Gender, class, educationalbackground, and country of birth were among the main determinants ofsuch differences.