My wife doesn't carry a gun, but likes that I do. We've talked for a while about her learning to shoot and getting one, but I've been remiss about teaching her, and because I travel a lot out of town just have yet to take her to the range. I did buy her this for her birthday last year (or was it two years ago?!)
A couple of weeks ago she called me up when I was in Kansas City and said, "I signed up for a CPL class!" She's begun watching the DVDs and remarked that "there's a lot of good info in them!" We went to the range for the first time last Sunday afternoon. She wanted to go again last night, so we did. Just got a text from her that she wants to go again tonight. That's three times in one week, all at her urging.
She's has shot all of my pistols--.40 S&W and .45 ACP--but she likes my Five-seveN the best. She's petite and doesn't have as much grip strength as she should have (for some reason) and she has some difficulty racking some of my guns. But I think something like the M&P 9mm with a weaker recoil spring and aggressive slide serrations would make that easier for her, so that's what I'm looking at. The interchangeable grip panels are also a plus. My son has an M&P .40 and I like it.