I agree 
There is a web site called Thecorneredcat.com that may be helpful for women shooters. I found it when my wife was looking for a gun. We also spent time at a range with a large selection of rental guns that she could try.
My wife is running an M&P 9 Julie Goloski (now Golob) edition with the pink backstrap. Once you junk the stock trigger and install an Apex kit with Reset Assist Module (RAM) you’ll have a very nice trigger pull compared to the gritty pull and indistinct reset of the stock trigger.
She ran ~1000 rounds through it over the course of two days with me in a Red Back One pistol course…it held up well.
got my wife a Tanfoglio FT9 two years ago. back then i was usually on 24 hour duty 2-3 times a week and our neighborhood was… less than ideal. she would sleep with my Tanfoglio Force 9 out of the drawer i usually kept it. anyway, she actually found it difficult using a 9mm or my 1911 45 (delicate hands) and since she an ophthalmologist, she doesn’t want those hands bruised too much. in the end she settled on a Tanfoglio FT9 in .380. i think it had to do with the fact that the grips of the FT9 were done in pink. :sarcastic:
Get what will actually be carried. The LCP in the pocket is 1000x better than the tricked out .45 left at home.
No one can tell you what would be the best gun for you to carry. Every person is different. My wife prefers to carry my Sig 226 in .40 or my 220 in .45. The best advice I can offer to deciding on a carry gun is to find a local range that rents guns so you can shoot many of them to help you decide. Don’t spend all your effort on trigger pull or trigger reaction. Now days just about all triggers can be “worked” for a better feel.
i think sir outlaw621 has an excellent suggestion. in this way, you could find out which one she is really comfortable with…
I would recommend a small hammerless revolver like the lcr in 357…can be carried in purse and actually shot from purse without a hammer or slide to worry about hanging up… No tap,rack,bang training…if it doesnt fire pull the trigger again…simple and effective
Personally, I think you made a very excellent choice for a woman’s EDC! Make no mistake: You are NOT going to be shooting a 22 Magnum (or LR). If you still have doubts, reflect for a moment upon the horrific damage Major Hasan did at Fort Hood, TX with his Five-seveN!
I know 3 women who carry this pistol; everyone of them absolutely loves shooting it, and tends to hit what she aims at. A male acquaintance of mine who owns a busy jewelry store and pawn shop carries an FN Five-seveN as his personal sidearm. He’s, also, very fond of this pistol/caliber combination.
I was surprised when I first noticed a Five-seveN on his belt; for years he’d always carried an expensive Kimber 45 acp; but, not anymore; and he’s, unquestionably, much more likely to need his pistol than I think I would ever be with mine. Good choice, good pistol! Carry an extra magazine and remember to practice often with it the way everyone’s recommended.
Being accurate with your carry pistol is really important - I think you did good! Now, relax and enjoy owning and being able to use such a classy pistol. 
That is a rather harsh and all encompassing statement that is demonstrably untrue.
Lasers on pistols have many useful uses, including as an adjunct to dry fire as part of your practice regimen.
Anyway, I was going to throw out that my wife greatly prefers the Kahr 9mms, two reasons are she prefers the easy and smooth DAO trigger on the Kahr line, and how flat the pistols are due to being single stack.
You seriously did not just post that.
First, murdering a bunch of unarmed defenseless people proves NOTHING about the efficacy of the 5.7 as a defensive caliber.
The next person I hear in person talk about how great the 5.7 is because of the body count in the Ft. Hood atrocity is likely to get throat punched. That retarded shit just boils my blood.
Read this;
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=19913
and learn something.
The 5.7 IS just a glorified .22magnum, period.
Very true! Perhaps the most useful and pragmatic use of a pistol laser sight, too. Me? I think lasers and snap caps are two of the best pistol training tools, yet, to come along.
Every now and then I’ll be impressed by some pistol shooter who, also, knows how to make his laser really work well for him during a rapid fire event. Now, these laser pistoleros are few and far between; but, like I said, every now and then I’ll run into one; and the fellow is always impressive!
Your, ‘internet courage’ is showing. 
Lighten up, Asshole! What you read and what you think you read are two different things. I did NOT say what you’ve taken such unwarranted umbrage at.
You know, it’s because of blowhard internet, ‘gun mutts’ like you that I find myself spending less and less time on anybody’s gun forum. I thought that, maybe, M4Carbine.net might be different; but, with the sort of crap and unwarranted vitriole you’ve just posted it’s become increasing clear to me that a, ‘little dick with a loud mouth and a gun’ can show up anywhere.
Perhaps we understand each other better now?
Oh we understand each other just fine. Arc I suggest checking up the 'tude there and show a little respect. I’m with tpd223 (who I happen to know is a standup dude and far from a gun mutt) that using the slaughter of defenseless people to show how effective a weapon is was a poor choice, especially given the large number of veterans who post here. Consider this a public warning that your are firmly off the reservation with the asshole and little dick comments. That shit stops now.
Feel free to refrain from posting if you can’t follow the rules of OUR lil internut gun forum.
Really? Then show me any other well-known example of the effectiveness of the 5.7 x 28mm cartridge IN ANY OF ITS SEVERAL VARIATIONS? Nothing derogatory was either meant or implied. The two of you guys are just, ‘blowing smoke’.
I’ve got several other things I want to say to you; so I’m taking the rest of this conversation off the board. Read your mail, Sport.
Oh I did read my mail Sport and in the infamous words of Curly Bill (and famously quoted by JSantoro)
Well…bye.
I would like to suggest an airweight J frame 442 . They are easy to get into action and will function with a contact shot. The j frame is not internet commando approved but it suits the intended purpose . That being said the best choice is something you feel comfortable handling.