According to Sepharadim, women are chayavot in havdalah. Can they also be motsi men? Looking for a Sephardic answer.
Answer
The Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat 296:13) holds that women are equally obligated for the mitzvah of havdalah as men are, and can therefore say all of the blessings and drink from the wine to fulfill the mitzvah for themselves. In the footnote for this halacha, R. Yosef adds that this is like the law for kiddush (as hazoriz stressed). Although the Yalkut Yosef does not discuss reciting for a man, the link to kiddush implies as much.
In Yalkut Yosef 271:14, after introducing women's obligation for kiddush in the same language as that of havdalah, R. Yosef writes:
ולפיכך הנשים מוציאות את האנשים ידי חובת קידוש, הואיל והן מצוות על הקידוש מן התורה כמותם. ואף אשה שהתפללה ערבית של שבת יכולה להוציא ידי חובה איש שלא התפלל. ומכל מקום משום צניעות נכון שהאשה לא תוציא אנשים ידי חובת קידוש אלא כשהם מבני בית
[Since men and women are obligated equally by the Torah in the mitzvah of kiddush], a woman has the halakhic ability to recite kiddush for men. A woman who prayed Arvit can even fulfill the obligation for a man who didn't pray. Nevertheless, for modesty reasons it is proper that a woman not recite kiddush for men, unless it is within her immediate family.
For a more direct approval, see the teshuvot here and here, which both rule that while Ashkenazi women should preferably not fulfill the mitzvah for men, it is allowed for Sephardic women.
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