The phrase "a status marker" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that indicates a person's social position or status within a group or society.
Example: "In many cultures, owning a luxury car is seen as a status marker that reflects wealth and success."
Alternatives: "a status symbol" or "an indicator of status".
Although connoisseurs derided XO as inauthentic, and impractical to boot, it caught on as a status marker.
He has studied the formation of value beliefs in the art world and the emergence of cultural capital as a status marker in the Gilded Age.
Big ideas are becoming as much of a status marker in high-tech hubs as cars and houses are in the oil belt.
It could have functioned as a status marker, a raw thing of beauty or a powerful gift, MacGregor suggests, comparing it to a contemporary luxury watch and a "supreme object of desire".
This discrepancy between spoken and written forms, coupled with a sense that fluency in English is a status marker and career tool, has clipped the wings of southern African literature before it had a chance to take off.
When I was a boy, building tallness was a status marker of tremendous significance, and in that pre-Disneyland era there was a grade-school hierarchy that ruthlessly distinguished between those who had and had not been lucky enough to visit New York and ascend to the top of the Empire State Building -- or as I heard it, thanks to the Boston vowel shift, the Umpire State Building.
SuPAR seems to have a potential as a risk status marker while VL is a marker of treatment efficacy.
This may stem in part from a time when meat was for most people more of an occasional feast choice than a daily staple, making it an economic status marker as well as one of strength and virility.
Having your own driver is a crucial status marker.
In agreement, serum MDA/TAS ratio, a redox status marker, was unchanged, compared with the control rats, 4(b), and 4(c)).
To assess the effect of betanin on paraquat-induced oxidative stress, we assessed MDA levels (a marker of oxidative stress) and SOD activity (an antioxidant status marker), while MPO levels were examined to determine the effect of betanin on paraquat-induced neutrophilic inflammation.
