Abstract: An automotive windshield wiper assembly has a wiper arm, a wiper blade, and a superstructure connecting the wiper arm and the wiper blade for maintaining a constant load distribution thereacross. The superstructure has a pair of yokes connected to the blade and a non-channeled harness attached to the wiper arm and pivotally joined on opposite ends thereof to yoke members, the harness having two sides which allow relatively unrestricted pivotal motion of the yoke members therebetween. The superstructure thus operates in a scissors-like fahsion to prevent ice, snow, or debris from building up therein. The yoke members are side-saddled over the wiper blade, and the harness is side-saddled over the yoke members so that the height of the yoke members above the blade is substantially the same as the height of the harness above the blade to provide a low profile wiper assembly.