Reply To: Wife/Mother sitting at head of shabbos table?

These days women go to Bais Yaakov, seminary, hold jobs and support their husbands in kollel, as such the women have a din of “isha chashuva’ (an important/prominent woman) which SA requires to recline. Besides, which husband is suicidal enough to tell his wife, “Honey, you don’t need to recline because you are not choshuv (like me).” Such a husband will be sleeping in the sukkah – even if he is a Lubavitcher…