The chapter focuses on the demand side of the urban labour market for young women and men in the age group of 18 to 29 years. It examines the long-term trends and gender disparities in their labour force participation rates, unemployment rates, and access to regular salaried jobs with formal working conditions like social security benefits, paid leave, and job security. Itinvolves an analysis of five rounds of unit-level data from the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), covering three and a half decades. The methodology involves the elimination of young males and females currently pursuing education and focusing only on those who have entered the labour force. The labour force participation estimates are based on usual status, i.e. a combination of principal and subsidiary status for non-student young women and men. The key finding is that the labour force participation rates of young graduate women are the highest among all educational categories and have increased over time, but this did not translate into better labour market outcomes for these better-educated women. Hence, given the aspirations of young, educated females and males of India, a lack of access to regular formal jobs with decent working conditions may either discourage them from entering the labour market or force them to remain  unemployed until suitable opportunities arise.