Went to a gun show to get the wife a pistol. The 380 was the only one she could pull the slide back to chamber a round. Probably should have gone with a revolver. Good thing is with very little practice she is extremely accurate.
My wife and daughter had the same problem with semi pistols. Not enough finger/hand strength to rack the slide. For their basic handgun course, I let them use two of my revolvers - the wife a 38+P Model 10 S&W, and my daughter absolutely had to use the S&W 686 357 Magnum. Both of them scored very very well in the 200 rd range qualification part of the training. My daughter conned me out of the 686 and we go every Tuesday to the range (lady's day).....she can group a set of shots at 60 ft that impresses everyone there. She's young, steady and not afraid of the revolver at all - a real deadeye.