It also links to a more in depth look at what they call the "position gap", which addresses some people's comments about the original article hinging on controlling for education, experience, and job title: http://media.dice.com/report/february-2015-the-position-gap/
(I'd call the IEEE post blog spam, personally. It's barely more than a collection of quotes from elsewhere, and "IEEE" with "Study" in the title gives this more of an air of credibility than a survey by a job search company probably deserves)