Can I consolidate tasty link juice from several categories to one?

[acecream]

I have two categories currently "Men's Christian Jewellery" and "Women's Christian Jewellery" but neither pick up search engine traffic as well as just "Christian Jewellery" as a unisex category.

My question is this; if I create a new category "Christian Jewellery" but then remove the two others and create 301 redirects from them to this new category, will this transfer all of the juice from the other pages to this new one?

Thanks in advance for any replies!

[kadesmith]

You won't see ALL of the link juice transferred from the other pages to this new one.  301 redirects are not as strong as an actual link to the page.

[acecream]

Brilliant, this is exactly the answer I was looking for.

Doesn't matter if it's only a small amount passed on, I think targeting this one over the other two will be far more beneficial.