I agree with you that the Carbine is an excellent firearm for a woman as it smaller, lighter and fires a lighter load then the Garand. I recently took my recently widowed cousin to the gun store. I tried her out on a 12 gauge and I could tell she wasn’t happy. Then brilliant man that I am I asked about the 20 gauge and she was happy. As a new shooter as many women are they feel that they will loose control of a large heavy firearm. With that in mind I got her a .22 for practice and will wait until she gets bored with it and replace it with a mini-14. For now she is happy with her new firearms and that is the most important thing.
I started my gf on a S&W M&P .22 LR and promoted her to the M@&P .380 EZ. With her arthritis, it’s about all she can handle, but she’s a pretty good shot with it now.
The CCI Velocitor round is getting about 1400 fps from the rife barrel and does sufficient damage to be a viable kill weapon if the trigger is pulled several times. The weapon is light and easily pointable, accurate and can carry a laser out front of the ront sight for pointing accuracy in CQB.