The work against honor-related oppression and violence that is specifically aimed at boys and young men is ambitious but small-scale, the report authors write.
More long-term investments that are made through a systematized method are needed to determine whether the work has any effect.
The efforts that exist today are mainly aimed at boys aged 13-19 in an honorary context.
The risks are that the efforts are too broad and do not dot where they are needed.
- The area of honor-related violence and oppression and preventive work has not been a priority for a long time, therefore few efforts have been made, says Mikael Thörn, investigator at the Gender Equality Authority.
"A psychological issue"
Ali Shohani is the education leader at Elektra at Fryshuset, which works for a society free from oppression, violence and other violations.
He thinks that the authority's report goes hand in hand with the fact that we need to become better at seeing men as victims in these contexts.
- It may be that you have to break contact with the family.
It is a psychological issue, he says.
There is no national survey of the extent of honor-related violence and oppression.
But of the calls to national helplines, about 85 percent are about girls and 15 percent about boys.
The school has a key role
It is also difficult to evaluate the effect of the efforts because they are often made by civil society organizations with little money at their disposal.
Now the efforts need to be scaled up to reach more boys at an early stage, according to the Gender Equality Authority.
They write that the work with boys of preschool age needs to be developed.
No interventions specifically for boys under 12 years of age have been identified in the study.
The school has a key role in working preventively against oppression of honor, which boys can both be victims of and become perpetrators of, they write.