As with many social species, who must deal with the issues arising from relatively many individuals seeking the same wants and needs within a relatively small area, resource allocation among takmar is prioritized by social status - the expression of what, in biology, might be called dominance. Status and its interactions are especially important to and between females, whose settled communities tend to form the backbones of takma civilizations.

Status interactions are most obvious and formalized among takma females. For reasons related to the species' evolutionary history, females are typically the holders of territory and possessors and distributors of excess resources, and the leverage to obtain greater amounts of both has one's status as an important factor.

Female status hierarchies may take a number of forms, but are most often some variation of a nested despotic hierarchy: multiple females may be of the same rank, but are only directly dominated by a single individual, who herself may be subordinate to someone else. In some ways the arrangement resembles a military hierarchy of ranks and organizational units; a female of a high enough rank will generally have a group of lower-ranked females under her direct command. She may give her “unit” instructions, but these are expected to be consistent with, and aid in, the implementation of her superior's own directives. Attempting to issue orders to members of another “unit” without permission, however, is greatly frowned upon; as in many things, a female with high enough status to have subordinates is likely to be territorial enough to be extremely jealous of an attempt to poach them from her. Female-led organizations and social structures, therefore, tend to be pyramidal, with either a single leader - if only a symbolic one - or a relatively small collegiate body of equally-ranked leaders, preferably each with well-defined responsibilities.

Some situations, usually in particular organizations, may have a formal mechanism for implementing particular changes in status desired or needed by the whole, usually reinforced by ceremonies or rituals. Regarding one's place in society as a whole, however, status is generally an informal thing defined by a particular female's own qualities, attitude, material resources, reputation and accomplishments, or personal relationships, and may change as they change.