Muppets insiders interviewed for this article say it’s virtually impossible for female Muppets performers to advance alongside their male counterparts by being invited into what’s known as the ...

The Muppets are a boys' club, and that sentence is definitely a new check mark on 2020 bingo. Throughout its 50 year history, the unique puppeteer team has largely retained an almost uncanny ...

Or the Muppets are a ragtag bunch of mostly boy frogs, bears and whatevers that exist in a world where a bossy pig is pretty much the only female representation. They teach life lessons about ...

Zari is intended to promote female empowerment in Afghanistan. — -- Sesame Workshop is welcoming its first Afghan Muppet -- a 6-year-old girl named Zari -- in an effort to promote female ...

Basma, the new female Muppet created for "Welcome Sesame," explained belly breathing to Stahl. "You put your hand on your tummy, then you take a deep breath, and breathe out," Basma demonstrated.

In September 2002 it added to its cast of muppets a female character who is HIV-positive. Segments including this new muppet will air only in South Africa (where the show is called Takalani Sesame ...

Sherzad, will voice Zari in Pashto, and another female puppeteer will voice her in Dari. It took two months for them to learn how to operate the Muppets. Trainers from Sesame Workshop’s New York ...